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FAST FESTIVE FOOD Rachael Ray’s Easy Holiday Feast, 5pm, Food Network
THE American chef demonstrates a festive meal that, she swears, can be made in under an hour — with a bit of planning. This includes placing the turkey in brine and soaking the sweet potatoes the day before.
FANTASY WORLD The Wheel Of Time, Amazon Prime
THERE’S no doubting the scale of Amazon’s fantasy drama, in which the sorceress Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) roams the land, looking for the saviour — or destroyer — of the world. There’s a lot of intriguing lore to get to grips with, too.
CHARMING TALE A Boy Called Christmas, 8pm, Sky Premiere
HE’S usually a jolly old chap with white hair, but even Father Christmas was young once. This festive fantasy follows a young lad called Nikolas on a quest to find his father. The splendid cast includes Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Sally Hawkins and Toby Jones.
TASTY CONTEST School Of Chocolate, Netflix
WITH the latest series of Bake Off now over, this new Netflix series could fill a neat viewing niche. French chocolatier Amaury Guichon (pictured) teaches eight top pastry chefs, and he will offer one of the contenders a big career opportunity.
POIGNANT CONCERT Death Songbook, 9pm, Sky Arts
DEATH is a part of life, and there are plenty of songs about it. One is Suede’s The Next Life, which Brett Anderson wrote about his mum, and which he performs in a largely acoustic new concert made up of music along a similar theme. He
is joined by Charles Hazlewood.
SINGER-SONGWRITER Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story, 9pm, BBC4
‘ALAN HULL was our Bob Dylan,’
says Sting in this celebratory new profile. Hull was a founding member of the Newcastle band Lindisfarne, wrote Fog On The Tyne and, apparently, ‘could drink everybody under the table’.
DOOMED FLIGHT The Hindenburg Disaster: Ten Fatal Mistakes, 9pm, 5Select
THE Hindenburg airship remains the largest man-made object ever to have flown. This informative new programme details the mistakes that meant its time in the air was tragically shortlived. (Freeview 55, Freesat 133, Sky 153, Virgin 152)
FUNNY FILM Queenpins, Amazon Prime
KRISTEN BELL (The Good Place) stars in a knockabout, basedon-truth comedy tale of a supermarket coupon scam.
MEDICAL DRAMA The Resident, 9pm, Sky Witness
AS THIS feisty U.S. drama continues, Cain struggles to prove himself after Kit gives him the chance to return to surgery. Meanwhile, Mina (Shaunette Renee Wilson, pictured) and A.J.’s future together becomes unclear, and Devon offers Rose a medical trial.
SCI-FI SHOW RETURNS Star Trek: Discovery, 9pm, Pluto TV
FOR complex corporate reasons, the new season of this Star Trek show has moved from Netflix to a weekly, 9pm slot on free streaming service Pluto TV. We’re a little behind the U.S. so, to catch up, two episodes will be available tonight at pluto.tv or via Apple and Android devices, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Chromecast and some smart TVs.
FREEVIEW MOVIE Suicide Squad, 9pm, ITV2
AN ATTEMPT to make the villains from the DC Comics universe into a bankable project in their own right. It’s a bit of a mess, but has some stars worth tuning in for, including Will Smith as conflicted killer Deadshot. Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, however, steals the show.